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A38790	The history of the three late, famous impostors, viz. Padre Ottomano, Mahomed Bei and Sabatai Sevi the one, pretended son and heir to the late Grand Signior, the other, a prince of the Ottoman family, but in truth, a Valachian counterfeit, and the last, the suppos'd Messiah of the Jews, in the year of the true Messiah, 1666 : with a brief account of the ground and occasion of the present war between the Turk and the Venetian : together with the cause of the final extirpation, destruction and exile of the Jews out of the Empire of Persia.	Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.	1669 (1669)	Wing E3490; ESTC R17074	43,042	143

for the space of two Moneths at the end of which the Vizier having designed his expedition for Candia and considering the rumor and disturbance the presence of Sabatai had made already at Constantinople thought it not secure to suffer him to remain in the Imperial Citie whil'st both the Grand Signior and himself were absent and therefore changes his prison to the Dardanelli otherwise called the Castle of Abydos being on the Europe side of the Helespont opposite to Se●tos places famous in Greek Poetrie This removal of Sabatai from a worse Prison to one of a better air confirmed the Iews with greater confidence of his being the Messiah supposing that had it been in the power of the Vizier or other Officers of the Turks to have destroyed his person they would never have permitted him to have lived to that time in regard their Maximes enforce them to quit all jealousies and suspitions of ruine to their state by the death of the party feared which much rather they ought to execute on Sabatai who had not onely declared himself the King of Israel but also published Prophesies fatal to the Grand Signior and his Kingdoms With this consideration and others preceding the Iews flock in great numbers to the Castle where he was imprisoned not onely from the neighbouring parts but also from Poland Germanie Legorne Venice Amsterdam and other places where the Iewt reside on all whom as a reward of the expence and labours of their pilgrimage Sabatai bestowed plenty of his benedictions promising encrease of their store and enlargement of their Possessions in the Holy-Land And so great was the confluence of the Iews to this place that the Turks thought it requisite to make their advantage thereof and so not onely raised the price of their Provision Lodgings and other Necessaries but also denied to admit any to the presence of Sabatai unless for money setting the price sometimes at five sometimes at ten Dollers or more or less according as they guessed at their abilities or zeal of the person by which gain and advantage to the Turks no complaints or advices were carried to Adrianople either of the concourse of people or arguments amongst the Iews in that place but rather all civilities and libertie indulged unto them which served as a farther argument to ensnare this poor people in the belief of their Messiah During this time of confinement Sabatai had leisure to compose and institute a new method of Worship for the Iews and principally the manner of the celebration of the day of his Nativity which he prescribed in this manner BRethren and my People men of Religion inhabiting the City of Smyrna the renowned where live men and women and families Peace be unto you from the Lord of Peace and from me his beloved son King Salomon I command you that the ninth day of the Moneth of Ab which according to our account answered that year to the Moneth of Iune next to come you make a day of Invitation and of great Joy celebrating it with choice meats and pleasing drinks with many Candles and Lamps with Musick and Songs because it is the day of the Birth of Sabatai Sevi the high King above all kings of the Earth And as to matters of labour and other things of like nature do as becomes you upon a day of Festival adorned with your finest garments As to your Prayers let the same order be used as upon F●stivals To converse with Christians on that day is unlawful though your Discourse be of matters indifferent all labour is forbidden but to sound instruments is lawful This shall be the method and substance of your Prayers on this day of Festival After you have said Blessed be thou O holy God! then proceed and say Thou hast chosen us before all people and hast loved us and hast been delighted with us and hast humbled us more than all other Nations and hast sanctified us with thy Precepts and hast brought us near to thy service and the service of our King Thy holy great and terrible Name thou hast publi●hed amongst us and hast given us O Lord God according to thy love time of Joy of Festivals and times of Mirth and this day of Consolation for a solemn Convocation of Holiness for the Birth of our King the Messiah Sabatai Sevi thy servant and first-born son in love through whom we commemorate our coming out of Egypt And then you shall read for your Lesson the 1 2 and 3 Chapters of Deut. to the 17 verse appointing for the reading thereof five men in a perfect and uncorrupted Bible adding thereunto the Blessings of the Morning as are prescribed for days of Festival and for the Lesson out of the Prophets usually read in the Synagogue every Sabbath you shall read the 31 Chapt. of Ieremiah To your Prayer called Mussaf used in the Synagogue every Sabbath and solemn Festival you shall adjoyn that of the present Festival In stead of the Sacrifice of Addition of the returning of the Bible to its place you shall read with an Audible Voice Clear Sound the Psalm 95. And at the first Praises in the Morning after you have Sang Psalm 91 and just before you Sing Psalm 98 you shall repeate Psalm 132 but in the last Verse where it is said As for his Enemies I shall cloath them with shame but upon himself shall his Crown flourish in the place of upon himself you shall read upon the most High after which shall follow the 126 Psalm and then the 113 to the 119. At the Consecration of the Wine upon the Vigil or Even you shall make mention of the Feast of Consolation which is the day of the Birth of our King the ●es●iah Sabatai Sevi thy Servant and First-born Son giving the Blessing as followe●h Blessed be thou our God King of the World who hast made us to live and hast maintain'd us and hast kept us alive unto this time Upon the Eve of this day you shall Read also the 81 Psalm as also the 132 and 126 Psalmes which are appointed for the Morning Praises And this day shall be unto you for a Remembrance of a Solemn Day unto eternal Ages and a perpetual testimony between me and the Sons of Israel A●dite Audiendo manducate bonum Besides which Order and Method of Prayers for Solemnization of his Birth he prescribed other Rules for Divine Service and particularly published the same Indulgence and Priviledge to every one who should Pray at the ●omb of his Mother 〈◊〉 if he had taken on him a Pilgrimage to Pray and Sacrifice at Ierusalem The Devotion of the Iewes toward this pretended Messiah increased still more and more so that onely the Chief of the City went to attend and proffer their service toward him in the time of his Imprisonment but likewise decked their Synagogue with S. S. in Letters of Gold making for him on the Wall a Crown in the Circle of which was wrote the 91 Psalm at length in

Mahometan religion and done dishonour to his Soveraign authoritie by pretending to draw such a considerable portion from him as the Land of Palestine his treason and crime was not to be expiated by any other means then by a conversion to the Mahometan faith which if he refus'd to do the stake was ready at the gate of the Seraglio to empale him Sabatai being now reduced to extremitie of his latter game not being the least doubtful what to do for to die for what he was assured was false was against nature and the death of a mad man replyed with much chearfulness that he was contented to turn Turk and that it was not of force but of choice having been a long time desirous of so glorious a Profession he esteemed himself much honored that he had opportunity to own it first in the presence of the Grand Signior And here was the non plus ultra of all the bluster and noise of this vain Impostor And now the Reader may be pleased to pause a while and contemplate the strange point of consternation shame and silence to which the Iews were reduc't when they understood how speedily their hopes were vanished and how poorly and ignominiously all their fancies and promises of a new Kingdom their Pageantry and Offices of Devotion were past like a tale or a midnights dream And all this was concluded and the Iews sunk on a sudden and fallen flat in their hopes without so much as a line of comfort or excuse from Sabatai more than in general to all the brethren That now they should apply themselves to their Callings and services of God as formerly for that matters relating unto him were finished and the sentence past The news that Sabatai was turned Turk and the Messiah to a Mahumetan quickly filled all parts of Turky The Iews were strangely su●prized at it and ashamed of their easie belief of the arguments with which they had perswaded one the other and of the Proselytes they had made in their own families Abroad they became the common derision of the Towns where they inhabited the Boys houted after them coyning a new word at Smyrna Ponftai which every one seeing a Iew with a finger pointed out would pronounce with scorn and contempt so that this deceived people for a long time after remained with confusion silence and dejection of spirit And yet most of them affirm that Sabatai is not turned Turk but his shadow onely remains on earth and walks with a white head and in the habit of a Mahumetan but that his natural body and soul are taken into heaven there to reside until the time appointed for accomplishment of these wonders and this opinion began so commonly to take place as if this people resolved never to be undeceived using the forms and rules for Devotion prescribed them by their Mahumetan Messiah Insomuch that the Chochams of Co●stantinople fearing the danger of this error might creep up and equal the former condemned the belief of Sabatai being Messiah as damnable and enjoyned them to return to the antient Method and Service of God upon pain of Excommunication The style and tenure of them was as followeth To you who have the power of Priesthood and are the knowing learned and magnanimous Governours and Princes residing in the Citie of Smyrna may the Almighty God protect you Amen for so is his will THese our Letters which we send in the midst of your habitations are upon occasion of certain rumors and tumults come to our ears from that Citie of your Holiness For there is a sort of men amongst you who fortifie themselves in their error and say let such a one our King live and bless him in their publique Synagogues every Sabbath day And also adjoyn Psalms and Hymns invented by that man for certain days with Rules and Methods for Prayer which ought not to be done and yet they will still remain obstinate therein and now behold it is known unto you how many swelling Waters have passed over our Souls for his sake for had it not been for the Mercies of God which are without end and the merit of our forefathers which hath assisted us the foot of Israel had been razed out by their enemies And yet you continue obstinate in things which do not help but rather do mischief which God avert Turn you therefore for this is not the true way but restore the Crown to the antient custom and use of your forefathers and the law and from thence do not move We command you that with your authoritie under pain of Excommunication and other penalties that all those Ordinances and Prayers as well those delivered by the mouth of that man as those which he enjoyned by the mouth of others be all abolished and made void and to be found no more and that they never enter more into your hearts but judge according to the antient commandment of your Forefathers repeating the same Lessons and Prayers every Sabbath as hath been accustomary as also Collects for Kings Potentates and anointed c. And bless the King Sultan Mahomet for in his days hath great Salvation been wrought for Israel and become not Rebels to his Kingdom which God forbid For after all this which is past the least motion will be a cause of jealousie and you will bring ruine upon your own persons and upon all which is near and dear to you wheresore abstain from the thoughts of this man and let not so much as his name proceed out of your mouths For know if you will not obey us herein which will be known who and what those men are who refuse to conform unto us we are resolved to prosecute them as our duty is He that doth hear and obey us may the Blessing of God rest upon him These are the words of those who seek your Peace and Good having in Constantinople on Sunday the fifth of the Moneth Sevat underwrot their names Ioam Tob son of Chananiah Ben-Iacar Isaac Alnacagna Ioseph Kazabi Mana●seh Barndo Kalib son of Samuel Eliezer Castie Eliezer Gherson Ioseph Accohen Eliezer Aluff During the time of all these transactions and passages at Constantinople Smyrna Abydos upon the Helespont and Adrianople the Iews leaving their Merchantlie course and advices what prizes commodities bear and matters of Traffique stuffed their Letters for Italy and other parts with nothing but wonders and miracles wrought by their false Messiah As then when the Grand Signior sent to take him he caused all the Messengers immediately to die upon which other Ianizaries being again sent they all fell dead with a word only from his mouth and being desired to revive them again he immediately recall'd them to life but of them onely such who were true Turks and not those who had denied that faith in which they were born and had profest After this they added that he went voluntarily to prison and though the gates were barr'd and shut with strong Locks of Iron yet that